CUSTODY MAJOR

Job description

SALARY: Commensurate with experience. OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF JOB: The Custody Major is the senior uniformed operations commander. This position will provide administrative, supervisory, and investigatory work at the Dauphin County Prison. This position is also responsible for safety, security, compliance, and operational readiness. This will include leadership of incident command during other critical events. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF JOB: - Collaborates with Warden and Deputy Warden(s) in composing policies, rules, orders, procedures, etc. for the prison. - Leads incident command during emergencies, disturbances, and critical events. - Responsible for all correctional shift work, periodically attending each work shift in accordance with established schedules or evident need. - Ensures consistency and accurate enforcement of operative rules, regulations, policies, and orders, and adherence to standards of Federal, State, and local governments. - Participates in strategic planning and policy development. - Assists Chief Deputy Warden in staffing shifts and scheduling days off. - Ensures that operational reports, logs, and memos from staff are complete, accurate, and timely filed. - Inspe...